CONSERVATION
Fading communities
Deforestation, land encroachment, and illegal logging have long cast shadows over the Earth’s most vibrant tropical rainforests. Not only home to a spectacular ecosystem of jungle plants and wildlife, the Amazon is also where most of the world’s last uncontacted tribes reside. These Indigenous communities have had little or no sustained interaction with the developed world, and it’s estimated that close to 100 of these tribes live traditionally in secluded pockets of the Amazon. That these communities continue to exist in 2023 is an anthropological marvel. But their future will no doubt be threatened should the Amazon’s natural boundaries continue to recede.
BE A Explore the Amazon with operators like Delfin Amazon Cruises, which employs local guides and sources handicrafts and produce from local communities.
